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Journalists top target for hackers

By DYLAN BYERS

03/28/2014 06:05 AM EDT

Journalists are "massively over-represented" as targets of state-sponsored hacking attacks, with 21 of the world's top-25 news organizations having been targeted, according to Google security engineers who spoke to Reuters.

"If you're a journalist or a journalistic organization we will see state-sponsored targeting and we see it happening regardless of region, we see it from all over the world both from where the targets are and where the targets are from," Shane Huntley, one of the software security engineers, said.